good morning. i'm kris sanchez. coming up on "today in the bay," grocery workers hit picket lines today. will customers back them up and will it matter to employers? election day is tuesday. what president obama and governor romney are going to make sure they earn every vote possible. plus, california is not hurricane country but some of the factors that made sandy an historic storm are at work here on the west coast. we'll explain. this is "today in the bay." good morning. looking live at downtown oakland on what is the first day since we fell back. the forecast is going to feel like we fell back three months or so by this afternoon. thanks for joining us. i'm kris sanchez along with meteorologist rob mayeda. do you sleep the extra hour or do you take advantage and stay

up later? >> i wish i could stay up later. i really enjoy the sleeping in. >> i stayed up. i blew it. >> you have your chance again tomorrow. >> let's show you temperatures. 40s and 50s outside. clear skies. it allowed temperatures to cool off this morning. notice not much of a breeze out there. at least not much of a sea breeze as we head through the afternoon. mostly sunny. a few high clouds going by. and it's going to be fantastic football weather for raiders taking on buccaneers this afternoon. we'll see temperatures around upper 70s in oakland and most of the bay area today seeing the same temperatures. mid 70s to low 80s today and tomorrow mid 80s. which would break records for this time of year. just as soon as things warm up, seven-day forecast shows a sinker in the forecast down to the bottom of the plate. thursday and friday full look at the changes in the seven day coming up. >> we'll wait for it. thanks very much. we start off with breaking news where bay area shoppers

will have to navigate past striking workers to get groceries this morning. thousands of grocery store workers across northern california and nevada are now on strike. as you can see from live picture, they are ready to walk that picket line. this is the knob hill in alameda. the announcement came after a midnight talks deadline passed overnight. before that the existing contract was extended hour by hour. management and union leaders have been in contract negotiations for more than a year. they also operate bel air markets and knob hill foods and the main sticking points are health care benefits, a proposed wage freeze and the elimination of premium pay for sunday shifts. the union contract expired at midnight. workers as you can see were ready to walk off the job. >> i talked to my family. we're ready.

we're ready. we're going to fight for solidarity together. >> management says the company needs to cut costs in the face of the weak economy and competition from nonunion stores like walmart. they released a statement this morning say iing we expect owl u are a employees who are scheduled to work to show up for work on sunday. a livermore teacher could face charges for a shocking public display on halloween. police arrested carlos taez after he allegedly performed a sex act inside a car in san leandro. witnesses say he tried to attract the attention of trick-or-treaters passing by. tellez is an art teacher for livermore valley charter prepatory academy.

the search continues for a man with a mental disorder. the san mateo sheriff's office say kenneth morrison left the health care center before 5:00 yesterday afternoon. he's 67 years old. 5'7" and weighs about 220 pounds. morrison has gray hair and a beard. he was last seen wearing a white sweatshirt and blue jeans. if you spot him, you are asked to call 911. now to decision 2012, we're down to the final two days of presidential campaigning. today both of the candidates will be in the key battleground state of ohio. it is a must-win state for both campaigns but they are also battling for the smaller tossup states that could close the gap if the election is close on tuesday. a new poll shows the president and governor romney are tied at 48% of the vote a piece. the political george washington university battleground tracking

poll is based on 1,000 voters asked between last monday and last thursday. meantime, early voting is under way in 34 states and the district of columbia and 27 million people cast ballots. no votes, however, will be counted until election day on tuesday. as nbc brian mooar reports both candidates are turning to famous names for last-minute help. >> reporter: former president bill clinton may have been losing his voice. >> he has done a good job with a bad hand. >> reporter: in virginia he spoke up for president obama trying to increase a key swing state. governor mitt romney is trying to hold down iowa. a battleground state where he's fallen behind five points in the latest polls. >> it's with the vote of the people of iowa we can't lose. >> reporter: the candidates crossed paths within hours of each other as they barnstormed iowa and six other tossup states. making their final arguments in

the last weekend of this campaign. ♪ >> reporter: while the president was joined by john mellencamp and katy perry, governor romney got a boost from nascar legend richard petty. >> this is what you hear when you're in a nascar race. >> with only two days of campaigning left, the candidates are just beginning their blitz of the battleground states. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >> "the new york times" blogger nate silver says the latest statistics show that president obama leads in 19 out of 20 swing state polls. he predicted the 2008 election correctly using the same method. he says there's a 16% chance the state polls could be wrong and that governor romney will in fact win the presidency. governor jerry brown is spending the last few days before the election campaigning for proposition 30. he visited some phone bank workers in l.a.

you might recall proposition 30 would temporarily raise sales tax a quarter cent and hike income taxes on individuals making more than $250,000 a year. it's expected to raise $6 billion to help fund education and yet there are mixed feelings about the plan. >> what they're going to do is use money they would have had to use to fund education this year and spend that on other projects they want to use tax increase for. >> as we stand for school and we stand for future and that's why they will have a strong win on tuesday. >> prop 30 faces challenges from rival proposition 38 and an arizona group spending millions of dollars to defeat it. coming up in about ten minutes, we'll take a closer look at other important issues at stake in tuesday's election with our political analyst, larry gerston. much more ahead on "today in the bay," coming up, many san jose businesses cater to san jose's hockey lovers. what's the score as the nhl

lockout continues. we may not get hurricanes, but one of sandy's driving forces may be at work here on the west coast too. what it means for us.

today three more red cross montgomery response vehicles will head to new york state. a team left fairfield an hour ago bringing the total number of bay area trucks there to five. add to that more than 100 volunteers who have also been dispatched. the red cross says each truck can provide up to 3,000 meals a day. the relief agency is also asking for people to help donate blood. hurricane sandy forced cancellation of many blood drives around the east coast and now there's a big need. this morning the cleanup and recovery from hurricane sandy continues. in new york, a new frustration now rationed gasoline.

as nbc's julie bagg reports, dozens of people waited in line for hours. >> it's bad. >> reporter: 8,500 gallons of gas can't pump fast enough. >> i've been out here for an hour and a half. i'm freezing. >> reporter: in brooklyn, people carried unconventional containers in lines that wrapped around the corner. >> this is out of hand. it's out of hand. i need help. i got a broken down car just up the block. >> reporter: firefighters and other emergency responders took priority at the front of the line. fuel trickled slowly after one ho hose stopped working. >> it's a long line. >> reporter: frustration flared. >> this man was not in line. please move him. >> reporter: nypd officers tried to keep people in line. in queens, a similar scene. >> chaos. >> reporter: with the sun setting and the temperature

dipping and no guarantee. >> i don't know. it's crazy right now, you know. the lines are so long. just waiting. hoping. hoping when we get there they won't say they're out of gas. >> it's crazy. >> and we'll have more ahead for you on "today in the bay." coming up, california's vote may not determine the presidency but we do have an impact on other decisions. we'll talk to our political analyst coming up. politics isn't all serious. "saturday night live" put their own spin on the election. live look outside. this is nothing but sunshine right now as we watch a seven-day forecast that will go from summer to winter in a span of seven days. we'll show you timing of the changes in the weather when we come right back.

good morning to you. it is 7:15. hopefully you remembered to fall back last night.

about an extra hour of sleep. it is a chilly start to the day but believe it or not, it's going to feel like we turned all of the way back to summer sometime this week. hi, rob. >> yes. especially by tomorrow. tomorrow and tuesday we'll see the warmest temperatures of the next seven days coming our way. today you got clear skies this morning with temperatures dropping off into the 40s and low 50s right now. gorgeous view there from the mountain there. not much of low clouds being pushed in. we'll see temperatures warming up. today upper 70s to some low 80s and then by monday and tuesday mid to upper 80s in reach for the north bay valleys and second half of the week completely different story. we'll explain why we see these rapid changes coming up in a second. right now you can see high pressure taking storm track moving it to the north and as this high strengthens, it's going to promote a north wind

into the valleys so we'll get a warmup today. 70s to low 80s. and then by tomorrow and tuesday, inland temperatures may get close to the mid 80s. so 85. keep that number in mind as we now flip toward the second half of the week. jet stream buckles to the north. cold pocket of air from the gulf of mexico. thursday the rain comes back. by friday inland temperatures we flip numbers around. 58 for a high on friday. cold enough by the way to see mountain top snow around mt. hamilton and very chilly showers. you're looking at the span between tuesday into thursday going from summer into winter like weather for the bay area. something for everybody this week. today pretty nice. upper 70s around san jose. close to 80 further south heading into morgan hill. low 80s around pleasanton to sunol and upper 70s to near 80 by fairfield. north bay, 83 degrees. look at san francisco and oakland looking nice to wrap up your weekend. highs in the mid to upper 70s. the first three days here they

look pretty nice. a little bit like summer. certainly by tomorrow and then the big change transition day will be wednesday. into thursday you see rain comes back. temperatures really drop off as that cold air arrives we'll see chilly showers. maybe an isolated thundershower or two for the end of the week. temperatures will stay cool even into the start of next weekend. chris? >> thank you, rob. two days from now americans will make a collective statement on the future direction of our country in the form of our national election. nbc bay area's political analyst larry gerston joins us now to talk about the big picture. welcome, larry. you'll be a busy man the next couple of days. let's talk about what's at stake in the short-term and in the long-term. >> two ways to look at this. you pointed it out. this question is about a lot of stuff. parties, candidates, all that stuff. in the short-term really and values issue will be long-term. that's how we want to look at it. short-term we're talking about the presidency and whether it's democrat barack obama deserves another four years or it's

whether republican mitt romney should replace him and voters will decide the fate of one-third of the u.s. senate, all of the house of representatives and that will be thousands of other races all of the way from local issues to state offices. plenty of decisions to make. this isn't just about the top line when we talk about tuesday's election. >> we see governor romney and the president in the battleground state of ohio. they are making a lot of last-minute campaign stops. for a lot of people it doesn't matter what they say in the days leading up to the polls. it has to do with how they feel personally about their values. they vote their values and not the candidate. >> i think that's so true. values is what it's about. every election is about values. if you think about it, this one perhaps more than others because of the candidates and political parties. they're just so different. i think that's what makes it so rich. one fundamental question concerns the role of government simply that the role of government in the 21st century. should government exist to help those who can't help themselves? the poor, the elderly,

unemployment students? just to name a few categories or should government stay out of people's way and encourage them to thrive on their own terms and then there are countless other issues on which of two major parties seem to differ. taxes. who should pay more? who should pay less. that's the question. the deficit, what's the best way for closing it? health care, should we move forward with the affordable care act or scrap it all together. a woman's right to choose. should government set the rules for abortion or stay out of the issue all together. social security and medicare, should they continue as government programs are be reformed. the candidates and political parties have very different views on these issues. not to mention many others. you put them together, there's a lot weighing in people's minds in terms of their own values. >> you have variables.

people who vote their conscious and people who vote political party and people vote candidates. we'll ask you to predict. all right. so what do you think? what do you think the outcome is going to be? >> mr. cautious here. it seems very clear that the house of representatives will remain in republican hands. i think the majority will be smaller than 25 they have. maybe between 8 and 12. okay. the senate appears that it will stay in democratic hands. that's a real shock because as recently as three to six months ago people thought the republicans have momentum and they'll capture the senate. a number of changes have happened that will keep democrats in control of the senate and as for presidency, all the polls say the same thing. it's too close to call. certainly in an election where every vote will count. it's amazing. some states, 2,000, 3,000 votes may separate these two candidates. every vote will count. >> all right. thank you very much, larry. don't go anywhere. we'll get larry back out here to talk more politics later on in this hour. we'll talk about local races.

be prepared. the upcoming election is making headlines on "saturday night live." last night in the aftermath of superstorm sandy they poked fun at mitt romney's disaster relief position and propose to cut emergency funding for fema. >> you can't hold a man or a woman to what he -- or she -- says at a republican primary debate. i want to make it clear that when i said we should get rid of fema, it was funny. >> so you wouldn't cut funding if you were president? >> it hurts my feeling you would say that. if there's anything people should know about mitt romney at this point is that nothing i have said in the past should be any indication of my positions in the future. >> president barack obama did not appear on the show. however, new york city mayor

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a glimmer of hope for san jose shark fans. as the lockout continues, many bars and restaurants in downtown san jose are having to come up with creative ways to attract customers. as "today in the bay" reports, they are catering to a slightly different crowd. >> a casino night birthday party is one way they are trying to offset the loss of business created by the nhl lockout. >> we have a lot of birthday

parties. we use facebook. use different social medias out there to get our name out there say come down here. use your back patio area. use the bar. enjoy yourself. >> we have a beer club as well. >> reporter: down the street there is a beer tasting event. the beer has invested in serves twice as many beers on tap all to draw in more customers. >> you focus on other events like draft beer events and you just have to try different stuff like we do trivia. we do traditional irish music. >> reporter: as the shark tank sits drained of thousands of fans, bars and restaurants are cutting staff. usually ten wait staff on hockey night. right now there's only five. >> hockey is a bonus rather than something that exist for you as an income. >> hours are cut all around. even my own hours are cut. everybody's pocketbooks are being hurt dramatically by this lockout. >> reporter: as nhl and players

continue the standoff, downtown businesses are making pleas to shark fans. >> we're here for you when hockey season does come. there's more to downtown san jose than just hockey. >> now the start of the regular season is now delayed to december 1st but the league and the players union did sit down face to face for the first time yesterday. they hadn't done that since mid october. pull out digging tools. your little ones can become junior archaeologists today. a mock excavation screening artifact identification and artifact reconstruction today. there will be trolley rides. this is all happening at san jose history park from noon to 4:00 this afternoon. admission is free. test on vocabulary words coming up too. coming up, strike called.

grocery store workers hit the picket lines this morning. they are already out. we'll show you how it's affecting customers and what their demands are. and election day is tuesday. what president obama and governor mitt romney are doing to secure the white house. ♪

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easy. good morning. looking live at sunol. enjoy sunshine while you have it. sunset is coming up on us fast tonight for the first time. thanks for joining us. i'm kris sanchez along with meteorologist rob mayeda who was smart enough to sleep the extra hour and not dumb enough to stay awake an extra hour. >> we only get one extra hour. it would be extra special this morning. the weather looks nice. this afternoon we'll see temperatures climb on up after the chilly start this morning. 40s and 50s outside for now.

and if you're lucky enough to head out to the raiders game, nfl here with up 70s for game time there in oakland. mostly sunny skies. mostly pleasant today. 70s to near 80 today. tomorrow we'll see mid 80s inland. feeling like summer to smart the week. don't let your guard down. it will feel like winter by the end of the seven-day forecast. >> music seemed appropriate for the black hole. >> very raider nation. >> all right. thanks, rob. see you in just a bit. an update on breaking news from overnight. workers at many local grocery stores are on the picket line. thousands across northern california and nevada went on strike. looking live at pictures out of alameda this morning with our camera is. they have been on that picket line since 6:00 this morning at raley's, bel air markets and nob foods. the midnight deadline passed

overnight and the labor contract extended hour by hour at the request of a federal mediator is no more. management from raley's and union leaders have been in contract negotiations for more than a year. the main sticking point is health care benefits a proposed wage freeze and elimination of premium pay for sunday shifts. >> i talked to my family and we're ready. we're ready. we're going to fight for solidarity together. >> management says the company needs to cut costs in the face of the weak economy and competition from nonunion stores like walmart. the strike is the company's first in its 77-year history. they released this statement to us this morning saying "we expect owl our employees who are on schedule to work on sunday to show up for work. we have plans in place to deal with any job actions to keep our stores open and operating to meet the needs of our customers." cleanup and recovery efforts

continue this morning after the superstorm. people living along the east coast now have a new problem. temperatures are starting to plunge. in new york city, officials have been handing out blankets and opening warming centers and millions of people are still without power. that of course means no heat. fema set up recovery centers which provide basic necessities and president obama says support will continue. >> we'll spend as much time and effort and energy as necessary to make sure people in new york, new jersey and connecticut know that the entire country is behind them in this difficult recovery effort. >> the fuel rationing continues in new york city state. 28 million gallons will be delivered to the region over the next two days. three more bay area red cross emergency response vehicles are headed to new york. one crew left fairfield about an hour ago. that will bring the total number of bay area trucks to five. add to that more than 100

volunteers who were also dispatched. the red cross says each truck can provide up to 3,000 meals per day. the relief agency is also asking people to donate blood. hurricane sandy forced the cancellation of many blood drives along the east coast and now there is a shortage. scientists say climate changes that brought the superstorm to the east coast could bring extreme weather to the west coast over the next couple decades. unless global warming slows, california could have more torrential rains, snow, flooding, fires and drought. california is one of nine states to develop strategies for dealing with climate change related problems. on november 14th, the california air resources board will launch a new program for cutting carbon dioxide emissions. they hope it will lead other states. both presidential candidates

are barnstorming key battleground states. president obama will make stops in new hampshire, florida and ohio. republican governor mitt romney will hold rallies in pennsylvania, virginia and ohio. plus iowa. yesterday both candidates crossed paths just hours apart from each other as they crisscrossed the country. >> we've made progress, virginia. >> we can't lose. >> iowa is seen as critical to both companies especially for the gop. no republican has taken over the white house without winning ohio. back here at home, one of the hotly contested races in alameda county is for the supervisor seat. a resignation after a scandal involving drugs and sex. as "today in the bay" monte francis reports, voters had a chance to hear from three out of four candidates. the missing candidate has controversial background of her own to overcome. >> reporter: voters packed a

coffee house to hear from district two candidates during a forum sponsored by religious leaders. richard is running to finish out the remaining two terms of his term. he says his first priority if elected would be to help preserve st. rose hospital which is on the verge of bankruptcy. >> 20% of the patients who go to st. rose do not have health care insurance. there are very few places where people who without health care insurance can get good quality health care. st. rose has been an exceptional hospitals for over 50 years. >> reporter: union city's mayor says he has the edge in the race because of his long experience and success as a public servant. >> i have actually been in local and regional government for 20 years. when you add up elected experience of my three opponents, that's equal to all three combined. >> reporter: retired after 23 years as deputy in the alameda county sheriff's department, mark says he would make public

safety his number one priority. >> 911 is delayed because the more you cut, the more you lose. with a big loss of public safety services, people are going to lose their security of having them around the corner. >> reporter: absent from the forum was state assembassemblyw who canceled at the last minute. she's terming out of her assembly seat is subject of an attack by a superpac with mailers reminding voters of conviction earlier in year of shoplifting. the past is an issue in this case. >> i think unless you have your head in the sand, you're not paying attention to realities of the people in this race. >> reporter: monte francis, "today in the bay." >> mary's campaign manager says the assemblywoman is campaigning door to door and will not be available for an interview until tuesday, which is of course

election day. the attacks don't appear to have hurt her ability to fund raise. she has raised more than $200,000 for her campaign. a fire at an apartment complex in san rafael forced ten people out of their homes. fire leaders say the damage could have been much worse if not for the quick thinking of workers on a nearby barge. this is video sent to us by a viewer who was on the water when the fire started around 9:45 this morning on canal street. there's a barge there on the right-hand side of your screen. it was doing some dredging work in the area with a crane and instead turned and sprayed water on the flames until firefighters arrived. no one was hurt fortunately. officials say the fire was likely sparked by a barbecue which was left on a deck overnight. it looks like it will be a good catch for crabs. if this year is like the past two seasons, numbers could be huge. last year nearly 32 million pounds of crab were caught.

reminder this is the beginning of the recreational crab season and recreational crabbers are limited to six to ten crabs her catch depending on the size. crab season ends next june. happy thanksgiving coming up. much more ahead, the election is just two days away and hundreds of local races and ballot propositions will be on your ballot. some with more far reaching consequences than others. and that's why we'll talk with nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston about what is at stake. >> now is the time to congratulate our city for the preventive measures we took. >> plus new york city mayor michael bloomberg's translator earned herself an "snl" spoof. and that's skyler... and his mom, nancy. they're just a few of the californians who took it on themselves to send you a message about what they need to restore years of cuts to their schools. prop thirty-eight.

thirty-eight raises billions in new revenue - bypasses sacramento and sends every k through 12 dollar straight to our local schools... every school. for them. for all of us. vote yes on thirty-eight.

good morning. it's 7:40 now. we're looking live at downtown san jose and of course those hills in the distance will get

green as we get a little bit of rain. cnbc's tyler mathisen has a look at the upcoming week in the world of business including the impact of hurricane sandy on our national economy. >> all of wall street and the nation will be watching tuesday's presidential election. the campaigning will end and the blitz of tv ads will stop. as voters head to the polls to elect a commander in chief. 13 state governors, senators, congressman and local officials. the east coast continues to clean up from devastation of hurricane sandy as power slowly gets restored. often blocked by home by home. travel gets back to normal. several estimates say the storm will cost the economy upwards of $50 billion in property damage and loss productivity for businesses. a figure that could impact consumer spending this month. earning season marches on. this week we'll get the latest quarterly from big companies from news corp, walt disney,

kohl's. beginning on tuesday spirit airlines will charge $100 for carry-on bags brought to the boarding gate. that fee will be cut in half if you pay beforehand at the ticket counter. with this new way to charge the customer, how long before other carriers follow suit? and this may come a little late for halloween. judy garland's original blue dress from "wizard of oz" hits the auction block. it could fetch a half million dollars. i'm tyler mathisen. get your business news on cnbc. also you can get your business and tech news before the bell weekdays on "today in the bay." they get started at 4:30 in the morning. still ahead on "today in the bay," we will take a closer look at some of the local races and measures that you'll see on this year's ballot. political analyst larry gerston is sitting down next to me. we'll break it down coming up.

here in the bay area, we have hundreds of local races and ballot propositions in the general election. some with considerably more consequences than others. for some of those races we go to nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston. earlier we talked about the big picture and now we want to talk about some of those smaller races that are at stake here in the bay area. >> there's a lot at stake. you begin with the big chunk of land. we're talking about 13 congressional seats. six state senate seats. 17 assembly seats will be touched on in this area. that's a lot. not to mention there will be combinations of mayoral and city council races throughout the area including berkeley, oakland, san francisco, san jose, fremont. that's just to name a few and county supervisors and other countywide races. we have a lot of stuff going on. we have all kinds of parcel taxes. some for local governments.

others for schools. sales tax proposals. and $2.5 billion of school construction bonds. a lot for people to consider besides those big races. >> speaking of education and schooling, prop 30 and prop 38 are on minds of many people that want to shore up funding for education. that's not the only big one that's getting considerable press. >> prop 30 is a great place to begin. there's no question about it. jerry brown's proposal to keep schools fully funded. you go beyond that and there are others. 9th and 15th congressional distric districts. and the 15th where 40-year veteran, liberal icon, pete stark, face as serious challenge from fellow democrat.

at the local level, there are a lot of races. a couple of tight ones. race for san jose city council. my goodness. both nail biters here. it could change the way the city council works with the mayor. and in richmond you have a favorite for a lot of people, measure n. that's the one that would add a penny an ounce tax to the cost of soft drinks. lots of money comes in against the american beverage association. >> speaking of funding for the campaign for and against things, that kind of is an indicator of how things might go. >> a few things to think about when we're trying to figure out how things are going to turn out. okay. first, it's always nice to know who has funded what. how about that. the extent to which one side of a campaign vastly outspends another. that may be a guide to an outcome. not necessarily always. second, it's nice to know who endorses who. that also gives us a hint of how to judge support for a campaign. and sometimes it's also a guide for the rest of us to make our

voter decisions. and most important we say this every election most important. we want to see the turnout. high turnouts usually favor democrats. low turnouts usually favor republicans. and the same thing goes for state ballot propositions whose fate may be determined by the various turnout levels. i am a kid in the candy store. a lot to watch for nationally, state and local. we'll have our hands full. >> for folks who have not turned into absentee ballots, what's your favorite website for information? >> there are so many. you want to look at something that tells you who has given money to what. go to your favorite organization, whether chamber of commerce or league of voters, they'll tell you who they are endorsing and who they're not. a little research will empower a lot of us. by tuesday, half of the voters in this state will have already voted. >> maybe it will be more

interesting than the guy that keeps falling asleep. okay. thank you very much. you can get larry's political insight any time, nbcbayarea.com. as larry mentioned, governor jerry brown is spending the last few days before the election really campaigning for proposition 30. he visited phone bank workers in l.a. proposition 30 would temporarily raise sales tax a quarter cent and hike income taxes on individuals making more than $250,000 a year. it is expected to raise $6 billion to help fund education but there are mixed feelings about his plan. >> what they're going to do is use money they would have had to use to fund education this year and spend that on other projects they want to use tax increase for. >> we stand for schools and we stand for the future. that's why proposition 30 will have a strong win on tuesday. >> it faces challenges from

rival proposition 38 and arizona group spending millions of dollars to defeat it. much more ahead on "today in the bay," still to come, possibly the best part of new york city michael bloomberg's news conferences over the last couple of days, well, the spoof on the enthusiastic interpreter. a view of oakland this morning. hazy sunshine and a return to summerlike temperatures here next few days. we'll look at that in the forecast coming up. here's a look at the impact of social media on the race for the white house. president obama versus mitt romney's fan following on facebook and twitter.

we want to say thank you to the organizers of purple stride 5k. november is pancreatic cancer awareness month.

go to pancan.org for more information. we'll see you folks next year. great event out there. thanks for supporting the pancreatic cancer awareness yesterday. we had mostly sunny skies for that. mostly sunny skies this morning. look at the golden gate bridge. fog free. if you want a photo without clouds in the way, this would be the morning. afternoon looks nice too. chilly for now. you probably need a jacket for the next hour or so. things are going to be warming up quickly now as we get into the afternoon. 40s and 50s outside across the bay area for the most. wind really not a factor today. we might see a little offshore breeze today which hints at the warmer changes we'll see in the forecast as high pressure builds in storm track way up here to the north. for the next three days, especially tomorrow, you'll see temperatures start to climb up. inland spots for tomorrow will make a run at the mid 80s. so about 85 degrees in warmest places for monday. today, upper 70s to near 80. warmer for monday into tuesday.

don't get used to it. wednesday and thursday, the jet stream will drop right into southern california opening the door for much cooler air. the first half of the week, 70s and 80s. by thursday and friday, 60s and probably some upper 50s by friday with the rain coming on back and air that will be cold enough to support snow levels perhaps just a little below 4,000 feet. summer to winter here in the span of just about seven days time. around the bay area, looking nice. mostly upper 70s around san jose. near 80 around morgan hill down roared gilroy. numbers around low 80s in pleasanton. 680 corridor upper 70s to low 80s. for the north bay, should see the numbers in the low 80s for santa rosa. the coast looking good. fog free before the sea breeze picks up. the next three days we could break records. if we get into mid 80s, which i think we'll see some of that by monday, maybe into tuesday a couple days where we could break

records with those warm temperatures but then about a 10 to 20-degree drop as early as wednesday. watch thursday into friday. the rain comes back. and i think some mountain snow. any time you get cold air like that coming on through with heating, with those breaks between the clouds friday, might even have thunder. just one of those strange seven-day forecasts where you go from record heat to unusually cold temperatures by the end of the week. we have everything coming our way. >> i get teased for not cleaning out my trunk. >> you keep everything in there for this week. >> thank you, rob. i'll tell my husband. just a reminder before you head out the door, daylight saving officially ended overnight at 2:00 this morning. most things like smartphone and computer automatically adjusted and set an hour back while you slept. if not, it will flash at you for a while. good time to check your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors as well. kristi yamaguchi launched a

new program aimed at helping kids with a high tech twist. yamaguchi introduced a pilot program at washington elementary school. her always dream foundation donated e readers to the school and partnered with a program that provides hardback books each week for students to take home to read. the combination allows children the chance to read the same book with their families that is available on the e readers in the classroom. yamaguchi won gold in figure skating back in 1992. and finally, only love for new york city mayor michael bloomberg's enthusiastic sign language translator. she spiced things up at his many news conferences on superstorm sandy over the last few days. the pair made an appearance on a spoof on "saturday night live"

last night and the new jersey governor chris christie and his translator. >> now is the time to congratulate our city for the preventive measures we took that limited the damage of the hurricane. measures such as ban on large sugary sodas that had in not been in place we would have seen obese workers float down the hudson river. >> things are bad, okay, they're bad. but we're new jersey, all right. we're going to be fine. we don't get sad in new jersey. we get even. so sleep with one eye open, sandy. >> translators brought pizzazz to jobs. funny stuff. important service but clearly not what we're used to. thank you for making us part of your morning. no newscast at 6:00 because it's sunday night football in america. dreaded cowboys visit atlanta

falcons. nbc bay area news at 8:30. have a great day.